Wheel-locking device.



Z. P. LEGER.

WHEEL LOCKING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 25. 191B.

Patented May 6, 1919.

NT FFICE.

ZENON 1?. LEGER, OF MONCTON, NEW BRUNSWICK, CANADA.

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Application fi led June 25, 1918. Serial No. 211,323.

tion of the invention, such as willenable others skilled in the artto which it appertains to make and use the same.

The present invention relates to devices to be used in connection with freight cars and other rolling stock when changing the brasses therefor, and more particularly to a device for clamping and locking the wheels of the car to the rails, so as to prevent the wheels from rising when lifting the weight of the trucks which bears upon the axles.

An object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus of this character which may be easily and readily applied or removed from the wheel, and one which will be strong, durable and efficient in use and comparatively inexpensive in the cost of manufacture.

With the above and other objects in view which will hereinafter appear as the description continues, the invention consists of the novel features of construction, combination and formation of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and par ticularly pointed out in the appended claim. I

In the accompanying drawings has been shown a simple and preferred form of the invention, it being, however, understood that no limitation is necessarily made to the. precise structural details herein exhibited, but the right is hereby reserved to any changes, alterations or modifications to which recourse may be had that come within the scope of the claim without departing from the spirit of the invention or sacrificing the efficiency of the same.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a detail perspective view of 'the device embodying the present invention as applied to the wheel of a car for locking the same to the rail of the track.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same; Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail section through the bearing blocks of the car;

Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail end view of Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 6, 1919.

oneof the clamping plates when connected to the rail of the track;

Referring now more particularly" to the accompanying drawings wherein like and corresponding parts are designated by similar reference characters throughout the several views.

I The numeral 1 indicates an ordinary rail of a track overwhich are adapted to pass the wheels 2 of a car which are carried by the axles 3. The truck 4: of the car carries the usual bearing blocks 5 and arranged between the axles 3 and these bearing blocks are the usual brasses 6. These brasses 6 wear out very often and to replace the same it is necessary to raise the truck a by means of the jack 7 so as to release the weight of the truck from the axle 3. When the truck Fig.5 1 a detail side elevation of the locking connection between the ends of the chain; and, n l p Fig. 61s adetail sectional View through the same. I i

has been raised the brasses 6 may be easily removed and new ones substituted therefor should they become worn or broken. In so raising the trucks the wheels and axles thereof have a tendency to rise from the tracksl, thereby causing their derailment and to lock the wheels upon the rails so as to prevent. the same from rising or mov ing when changing the brasses, I provide the locking device embodying the present invention which will now be described.

This locking device comprises two clamps indicated by the numeral 8 which engage the rails 1 and connected to each of these clamps is the opposite end of a chain, which latter comprises the sections 9 and 10 respectively. This chain comprises the usual links, but the section 9 is provided with a link 11 which is provided with an enlarged portion and a narrow portion 12. In adjusting the length of this chain the section 10 may pass through the enlarged portion of the link 11, but when itis slipped within the narrow portion 12 of this link 11, the sections of the chain will be securely locked together. The clamps 8 each comprise a plate having a recess therein for receiving the ball of the rail and these plates are provided with the depending portions 12 and 13 which extend on each side of the rail and the depending portion 13 is provided with a lip 14 which extends under the ball of the rail. By providing clamps of this construction it isobvious that they may easily and'readily 'be placed upon the ball of the rail and the chain may be placed over the tire of the Wheel as 'betterilllistrate d"in Figs. 1' and 2. By adjusting the chain the the hall or" the rail so as t6 enable the same t6 beplacednpon rails of; va'r'ionssizes, and a When puttingsuchclamps' to rails ofsinaller sizes snitablewedges may be inserted between the dependingporti'on 12 of the clamp edt eb l et henily-hea ing portion and the other depending portion extendingoiit'vvardly at an angle to said lip forming an opening therebetween adapted to receive'the ballof a rail, and means 'con nected to opposite ends oi said clamps adapted to pass over the rim of a carwhcel.

" 'In Witness whereof I have hereunto set manor; 1 LEGER.

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